Sheppard Frere
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Dr Sheppard Frere is a British historian and archaeologist studying the Roman Empire.
Between 1955 and 1961 he excavated at Verulamium. He then became Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the University of London from 1961 to 1966 before becoming Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford University. He is now retired.
Publications include:
- Britannia, A History of Roman Britain, 1967
Sheppard "Sam" Frere was a classics master and housemaster at Lancing College c.1949-52 when he was in charge of the excavations at Canterbury during his summer vacations. He made a number of broadcasts about his work at that time. He left Lancing in 1954 to become a university lecturer in archaeology. His family details and dates are given under the family of 'Frere' in Burke's 'Landed Gentry' for 1969. For three seasons early in the 1970s, he was in charge of the archaeological summer school that excavated the Roman Fort at Strageath, near Crieff, in Perthshire.
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